You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. – Samuel Johnson
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson